Updating the designs (II)
Since my post about updating bore designs, everything I learned is coming together.
Progress report
Working on keys
Besides development of shuttle drones, I am looking into valves for chanters and flutes.
A new DIY page
A new page with STL documents to print at home is now online! See DIY in the menu above.
Single reeds for Walsh shuttles
On special request from the USA, I am attempting to adapt my single reeds to actual Walsh shuttle drones. So far so good, and they have impressive volume and stability for such narrow bores.
Updating the designs
To date I have two different drone configurations which I play almost daily. To finalize these beasties, I had to finetune the designs of the bores and shuttles to make them easier to use and easier to produce.
First test with resin printing
To produce a high quality material 3d printing is not the first method you would think of. The surfaces of the (often used FDM) prints feel rough and looking thourgh a microscope, the material shows to be porous full of internal spaces. These material properties are less than ideal to produce woodwind instruments.
HengeloPipes on youtube
A Scottish smallpipe chanter in A (John Walsh) with a demo shuttle drone. The A and E drones are tuned to B and F# to get a minor scale.
The shuttle drones work with a range of chanters. Here is an example of a Basic Shuttle in D with a low D chanter by Mr Jon Swayne